Measuring Business Interruption Losses and Other Commercial Damages

MEASURING BUSINESS INTERRUPTION LOSSES AND OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES
SECOND EDITION
Computing damages in business interruption lawsuits requires a sound knowledge of fields such as litigation economics, forensic accounting, and law. Now, one comprehensive volume has been developed for practitioners in this field specifically for dealing with the diverse demands presented by commercial damages analysis.
The only book in this field to explain the complicated process of measuring business interruption damages whether caused by wrongful acts of defendants in lawsuits or natural disasters Measuring Business Interruption Losses and Other Commercial Damages, Second Edition provides a comprehensive framework for how such losses should be measured. The areas covered in this updated second edition include:

Recent developments in the courts on damages

Selecting a damages expert and challenging an opposing expert

Understanding the role of the economy in business interruptions

Doing an industry analysis to support or refute loss claims

Methods of projecting lost sales

Computing the costs of lost sales to arrive at lost profits

Discounting to present value and addressing risk

This book then goes on to show how damages are measured in important specialized areas such as:

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Accountants, economists and attorneys

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MEASURING BUSINESS INTERRUPTION LOSSES AND OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES
SECOND EDITION
Computing damages in business interruption lawsuits requires a sound knowledge of fields such as litigation economics, forensic accounting, and law. Now, one comprehensive volume has been developed for practitioners in this field specifically for dealing with the diverse demands presented by commercial damages analysis.
The only book in this field to explain the complicated process of measuring business interruption damages whether caused by wrongful acts of defendants in lawsuits or natural disasters Measuring Business Interruption Losses and Other Commercial Damages, Second Edition provides a comprehensive framework for how such losses should be measured. The areas covered in this updated second edition include:

Recent developments in the courts on damages

Selecting a damages expert and challenging an opposing expert

Understanding the role of the economy in business interruptions

Doing an industry analysis to support or refute loss claims

Methods of projecting lost sales

Computing the costs of lost sales to arrive at lost profits

Discounting to present value and addressing risk

This book then goes on to show how damages are measured in important specialized areas such as:

Recenzii

"An updated explanation of the methodology for how lost profits should be measured. Now fully revised and updated, focused on commercial litigation and the many common types of cases, this is the only book in the field to explain the complicated process of measuring business interruption damages. The book features an easy to understand and apply, step–by–step process for how losses should be measured so as to be accurate and reliable and consistent with the relevant laws." (AccountingWEB.com, February 1, 2010)

Notă biografică

PATRICK A. GAUGHAN has published eight books, including the award–winning Mergers Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings, Fourth Edition, published by Wiley. He is President of Economatrix Research Associates, Inc., a firm that has conducted damages analysis for the past twenty years for corporate clients such as Airbus, GE, GM, Ford, Philip Morris, and Wyeth as well as insurance companies including Liberty Mutual, Zurich, State Farm, and many of the major law firms in the United States.